Australia announces further funding for Ukraine’s fight, passing $1b in total
Defence Minister Richard Marles was in Lviv on Saturday, becoming just the second federal government minister to visit Ukraine since the war started.
- by Rob Harris
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King Charles III, recovering well from cancer, to return to work
The monarch will return to full duties in coming days, as Buckingham Palace moves to reassure the public amid a horror start to the year for the royal family.
- by Rob Harris
The tide has turned decisively against Ukraine, can US help keep it in the fight?
US President Joe Biden signed off another billion-dollar assistance package just as the tide was turning against the Ukrainians on the battlefield.
- by Rob Harris
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UK politics
UK politics so much funnier than fiction, comedy writer finds it ‘hard to match’
The Tories are in a spot of bother as the UK heads to an election. A possible catastrophic defeat would be both self-inflicted and richly deserved.
- by Rob Harris
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Animals
Military horses, one blood-stained, run loose through central London
A group of horses bolted and threw their riders while on their daily morning exercise in central London, leaving several people injured.
- by Rob Harris
‘First point of contact’: After more than 250 years, Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook to return home
The Gweagal spears were taken in 1770 when the Endeavour arrived at Botany Bay in the first meeting between the British and the Indigenous Gweagal people of Kamay.
- by Rob Harris
BBC presenter who announced Queen’s death quits over teen photo scandal
Huw Edwards, the broadcaster’s best-paid newsreader, was suspended last year following claims he allegedly paid a teenager for explicit pictures.
- by Rob Harris
Arrest marks latest fall for Scotland’s once high-flying power couple
Nicola Sturgeon, who dramatically quit public life in March last year after eight years as first minister of Scotland, was detained in June. Now her husband has been arrested.
- by Rob Harris
Playing 26 roles in one production, Sarah Snook wins prestigious Olivier Award in London
The Australian has won acclaim for her performance in the one-woman show The Picture of Dorian Gray on London’s West End.
- by Rob Harris
‘Slave-like’: Solar panels may be great for the environment but at what human cost?
Modern-day abolitionist Grace Forrest is now at the same level as Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Her cause is to curb forced and child labour while there’s time.
- by Rob Harris
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Russia-Ukraine war
Australian elite seek to divert Russia’s $9b ‘dirty money’ to Ukraine
The group, including former prime ministers, business, union and military leaders, wants Australia to divert the billions it has confiscated since the invasion of Ukraine.
- by Rob Harris